[c-nsp] What is the lowest latency switch?

[Brant I. Stevens]

As long as you are exploring other vendors, look at Arista and Juniper.

On 3/16/11 9:07 AM, "Jürgen Marenda" <jm at ilk.net> wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
>What about "H3C" "3com" S5820X ?
>
>May be renamed or renumbered to hp procurve,
>but spec says:
>
>"...
> Additionally, in order to reduce
> latency in the network core or data center environment, the
> S5820X features cut-through switching as well as store and
> forward mode switching.
> ...
> Forwarding Latency <1.9 µsec (FIFO 64-byte packets)
> ...
>"
>
>For a < 200W (under full load) device
>(compared to the 1100W of my 4900M's )
>this sounds good for Layer2 device.
>
>Any experience with that box ?
>
>cu, 
>
>Juergen.
>
>
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